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I get that a lot of the art portraying Madonna and Child as fabulously wealthy europeans in splendid robes and golden light was meant to glorify God + whichever nobility was sponsoring the artist, and while of course it’s genuinely beautiful art, it just always struck me as horribly missing the point, which is that the supposed son of God started in incredibly humble circumstances, among the kind of people that everyone else looks down on

‘Massacre des Innocents’ by Leon Cogniét, 1824. Although the Feast of the Holy Innocents is in a couple of days time, this painting is still really relevant in that it portrays Mary as how She really was: a scared refugee mum, so fearful that Her son was going to be one of the Innocents killed by King Herod.

New favorite interpretation of the nativity. 

edit: DAVE’S CITY yes of course

there r tears in my eyes

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“I always think – and know, having watched it over the years through thousands and thousands of interviews, and watching people in their dysfunction – that when something really negative is brewing, that there is the direct opposite reaction that is also possible, because for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. So when something as big as what started to happen in October – with Harvey Weinstein – started to unfold, I thought ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.’ And with every day’s revelation, I thought, ‘Here is an opportunity for a powerful growth, and how do we use this moment to elevate what is happening instead of continually victimize ourselves.’”  — Oprah Winfrey